Boyd Carter Cemetery News

Families Worry Historic African-American Cemetery Threatened By Mountaineer Gas Pipeline

Full story on Boyd Carter Cemetery from DC Media Group. DC Media Group, thank you for your wonderful research on the veterans buried there & to Jim Surkamp for the important historical findings linking the property to the Dandridges!

Rockwool Pipeline Construction May Disturb African-American Cemetery

"Gentrification is erasing black cemeteries and, with it, black history" by Christopher Petrella

Thank you Christopher Petrella for telling Boyd Carter Cemetery’s story! We cannot let our government & corporations erase black history or this cemetery!!!

Gentrification is erasing black cemeteries and, with it, black history Local activists are fighting to save Boyd Carter cemetery, a historic black burial ground in West Virginia in the path of a pipeline

05-06-19 CTCC Meeting - Save Boyd Carter Memorial Cemetery

04-18-19 JCC Meeting - Save Boyd Carter Memorial Cemetery

5-16-19 Jeff. Co. Commission Meeting - Boyd Carter Memorial Cemetery Public Comments

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